23-Year-Old Student Who Killed 100 ISIS Militants Now Has A $1 Million Bounty On Her Head
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Joanna Palani is a 23-year-old politics student from Denmark. She also happens to have a $1 million bounty on her head. Why? Because believe it or not, Joanna is thought to have killed over 100 ISIS militants while fighting alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq and Syria.
Joanna, who is of Iranian-Kurdish ancestry, was born in a refugee camp in Ramadi, Iraq, following the first Gulf War. She first fired a gun at the age of nine, and she was still a teenager when, in 2014, she dropped out of college and left Copenhagen for Syria. She wrote on Facebook that she was inspired “to fight for women’s rights, for democracy – for the European values I learned as a Danish girl.” She joined the ongoing uprising against the Syrian government in the wake of the Arab Spring, first fighting against the Assad regime and then against ISIS. She fought them in Kobane, a Syrian town on the border with Turkey, while fighting with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), and she also helped to liberate Yazidi girls who were imprisoned as sex slaves while fighting alongside Peshmerga forces in Iraq.
Her actions came to the attention of the Danish authorities, who banned her from further travel to the region when she returned from fighting in September 2015. She was then locked up in Vestre Fængsel, Demark’s largest prison, when it was discovered that she’d flouted her ban in order to travel to Qatar. She spent 3 weeks behind bars before being released, and she’s since had her passport confiscated. She believes she’s seen as a terrorist in her own country, and she lives in hiding and changes her location constantly from fear of reprisal. “I am sorry for breaking the law but I had no choice in my mind at the time,” she said. “Those I risked my life for, are now taking away my freedom. I did not expect to lose almost everything for fighting for our freedom and our safety.”
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“There’s a $1 million reward on my head. It is possible for me to be captured and killed in these circumstances that I find myself in here in Denmark”
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Joanna Palani was still a teenager when, in 2014, she dropped out of college and left Copenhagen to go and fight in Syria
Image credits: Sarah Buthmann
She wrote on Facebook that she was inspired “to fight for women’s rights, for democracy – for the European values I learned as a Danish girl”
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She is thought to have killed over 100 ISIS militants while fighting alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq and Syria
Image credits: Joanna Palani
She also helped to liberate Yazidi girls who were imprisoned as sex slaves
Image credits: Asger Ladefoged
“When we were preparing to liberate houses of ISIS sex slaves, we had this saying – one fighter goes to rescue but many fighters will come back out”
Image credits: Asger Ladefoged
“As a sniper I could be on the front line for nine days at a time. You have to be very patient. You have to focus. You cannot lose concentration for one moment”
Image credits: Joanna Palani
Her actions came to the attention of the Danish authorities, who banned her from traveling to the region when she returned from fighting in September 2015
Image credits: Joanna Palani
Unable to leave her comrades to fight alone, she broke her ban and flew back to Iraq. She walked for seven hours through the night to cross the border into Syria
Image credits: Asger Ladefoged
When she returned she was imprisoned for 3 weeks in Vestre Fængsel, Denmark’s largest prison
Image credits: Sarah Buthmann
She believes she’s seen as a terrorist in her own country, and she lives in hiding and changes her location constantly from fear of reprisal
Image credits: Joanna Palani
“I am sorry for breaking the law but I had no choice in my mind at the time,” she said
Image credits: Asger Ladefoged
“Those I risked my life for, are now taking away my freedom. I did not expect to lose almost everything for fighting for our freedom and our safety”
Image credits: Asger Ladefoged
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So publish her face everywhere, so everyone can see her. If there is a bounty on my head I would not want to be recognizable to the everyone who wants $1million just for pointing me out in a crowd.
The photos are taken from her own posts all over the internet. Spare 5 mins, see for yourself. She likes publicity. A lot.
That is a strategic tactic for recruiting more people for war and fight for good guys and reasons. But it comes with a high prize, and not exactly measured monetarily.
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Of course she does, she's a female.
You don't put a bounty on someone's face if you don't know what they look like.
She's my kinda lady regardless. She has more testosterone flowing through her veins than most men.
You may mean well John, but don't give us that testosterone bull. Don't make this about men. She is not "manlier" than most men. She is a woman and she is a badass.
You're my kinda man. You've got more oestrogen running through your veins than most women.
your kinda lady has to have more testosterone then men?
Tell that to the large numbers of men sent to fight these animals only to come back in caskets or messed up and given less assistance than women for kental health and employment because "oppression"
She has probably determined that the media exposure is sufficiently valuable to the cause that the personal risk is worth it.
There's gotta be a Boba Fett joke in there somewhere.. But yes I have to agree.
Was thinking that myself lol
OMG, I just loved the comments. Brilliant! My award goes to Dawn Denham. Worst comment - Delacy. You've tried too hard, dude... sorry!
People like that, if you can claim that 1M you f*****g deserve it. If I ever lock eyes with Anti-terror Barbie my mouth knows no words.
That's exactly what i was thinking. The thing people risk for a good story.
Don't worry, Daesh don't have that kind of money anymore, they barely can feed themselves no mention paying their thugs salary, about a million dollar bounty on her head is just a propaganda Daesh put to encourage their followers to kill her, despite if they can really kill her, the killer will not receive $1 million, it will be way...way...way... much less than a million. But any Daesh thugs wouldn't dare to confront her because they are afraid to get killed by her because they will lost their 72 goat virgins prize if killed by a woman.
Ignorance,plain and simple.
What's a 72 goat virgins prize
72 goat virgins novadays translates to 72 iPhones 7?
Exactly!! We should know about her after everything is said and done.
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She probably wrote this herself...
Kinda have a Jessica lynch feeling of embellishment on this for a narrative of empowerment.
A petition to add her to the avengers?
YEAH!!
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Shut up, armchair activist!
Shut up, jerk.
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Like it wasn't enough that you're bipolar...you're stupid too !! RESPECT FOR THIS LADY!
Whoa! I am pretty sure that Bipolar King's comment was a complement- not an insult. Do you know what the Avengers are? Plus, putting someone down for a mental illness? Harsh!
Do you even know who the Avengers are???!
I agree every cause needs a face, but c'mon... If at least 50% of this is true, kudos to her, but I agree w/ several comments here - one of the most violent political and military group has a big-a** bounty on your head and you go around posting pictures of yourself to motivate people on social media?
They ("the bad guys") probably already know what she looks like. Now the rest of the world (aka "the good guys") know it too, we could keep an eye out for her safety
Her safety is strictly her business. She made her choices, she has to live with the consequences. We're not responsible for her safety, she is. I'm all for freedom to make choices, and I feel that the Danish authorities shouldn't have intervened in the way they have, but she must live with her choices, including the bounty that's apparently now on her head. Publicity isn't going to help her much, if at all.
So publish her face everywhere, so everyone can see her. If there is a bounty on my head I would not want to be recognizable to the everyone who wants $1million just for pointing me out in a crowd.
The photos are taken from her own posts all over the internet. Spare 5 mins, see for yourself. She likes publicity. A lot.
That is a strategic tactic for recruiting more people for war and fight for good guys and reasons. But it comes with a high prize, and not exactly measured monetarily.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Of course she does, she's a female.
You don't put a bounty on someone's face if you don't know what they look like.
She's my kinda lady regardless. She has more testosterone flowing through her veins than most men.
You may mean well John, but don't give us that testosterone bull. Don't make this about men. She is not "manlier" than most men. She is a woman and she is a badass.
You're my kinda man. You've got more oestrogen running through your veins than most women.
your kinda lady has to have more testosterone then men?
Tell that to the large numbers of men sent to fight these animals only to come back in caskets or messed up and given less assistance than women for kental health and employment because "oppression"
She has probably determined that the media exposure is sufficiently valuable to the cause that the personal risk is worth it.
There's gotta be a Boba Fett joke in there somewhere.. But yes I have to agree.
Was thinking that myself lol
OMG, I just loved the comments. Brilliant! My award goes to Dawn Denham. Worst comment - Delacy. You've tried too hard, dude... sorry!
People like that, if you can claim that 1M you f*****g deserve it. If I ever lock eyes with Anti-terror Barbie my mouth knows no words.
That's exactly what i was thinking. The thing people risk for a good story.
Don't worry, Daesh don't have that kind of money anymore, they barely can feed themselves no mention paying their thugs salary, about a million dollar bounty on her head is just a propaganda Daesh put to encourage their followers to kill her, despite if they can really kill her, the killer will not receive $1 million, it will be way...way...way... much less than a million. But any Daesh thugs wouldn't dare to confront her because they are afraid to get killed by her because they will lost their 72 goat virgins prize if killed by a woman.
Ignorance,plain and simple.
What's a 72 goat virgins prize
72 goat virgins novadays translates to 72 iPhones 7?
Exactly!! We should know about her after everything is said and done.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
She probably wrote this herself...
Kinda have a Jessica lynch feeling of embellishment on this for a narrative of empowerment.
A petition to add her to the avengers?
YEAH!!
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Shut up, armchair activist!
Shut up, jerk.
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Like it wasn't enough that you're bipolar...you're stupid too !! RESPECT FOR THIS LADY!
Whoa! I am pretty sure that Bipolar King's comment was a complement- not an insult. Do you know what the Avengers are? Plus, putting someone down for a mental illness? Harsh!
Do you even know who the Avengers are???!
I agree every cause needs a face, but c'mon... If at least 50% of this is true, kudos to her, but I agree w/ several comments here - one of the most violent political and military group has a big-a** bounty on your head and you go around posting pictures of yourself to motivate people on social media?
They ("the bad guys") probably already know what she looks like. Now the rest of the world (aka "the good guys") know it too, we could keep an eye out for her safety
Her safety is strictly her business. She made her choices, she has to live with the consequences. We're not responsible for her safety, she is. I'm all for freedom to make choices, and I feel that the Danish authorities shouldn't have intervened in the way they have, but she must live with her choices, including the bounty that's apparently now on her head. Publicity isn't going to help her much, if at all.